Grades 6–8 Text Exemplars

Stories
Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women (L 790, 1300)
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. (L 950)
L’Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time. (L 740)
Cooper, Susan. The Dark Is Rising. (L 920)
Yep, Laurence. Dragonwings. (L 870)
Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. (L 920)
Hamilton, Virginia. The People Could Fly. (L 680)
Paterson, Katherine. The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks. (L 930)
Cisneros, Sandra. “Eleven.”
Sutcliff, Rosemary. Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad. (L 1300)

Drama
Fletcher, Louise. Sorry, Wrong Number.
Goodrich, Frances and Albert Hackett. The Diary of Anne Frank: A Play.

Poetry
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. “Paul Revere’s Ride.”
Whitman, Walt. “O Captain! My Captain!”
Carroll, Lewis. “Jabberwocky.”
Navajo tradition. “Twelfth Song of Thunder.”
Dickinson, Emily. “The Railway Train.”
Yeats, William Butler. “The Song of Wandering Aengus.”
Frost, Robert. “The Road Not Taken.”
Sandburg, Carl. “Chicago.”
Hughes, Langston. “I, Too, Sing America.”
Neruda, Pablo. “The Book of Questions.”
Soto, Gary. “Oranges.”
Giovanni, Nikki. “A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long.” (available in EBSCO, Utah's Online Library)

Informational Texts: English Language Arts
Adams, John. “Letter on Thomas Jefferson.”
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
Churchill, Winston. “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Address to Parliament on May 13th, 1940.”
Petry, Ann. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Steinbeck, John. Travels with Charley: In Search of America.

Informational Texts: History/Social Studies
United States. Preamble and First Amendment to the United States Constitution. (1787, 1791).
Lord, Walter. A Night to Remember.
Isaacson, Phillip. A Short Walk through the Pyramids and through the World of Art.
Murphy, Jim. The Great Fire.
Greenberg, Jan, and Sandra Jordan. Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist.
Partridge, Elizabeth. This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie.
Monk, Linda R. Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution.
Freedman, Russell. Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Informational Texts: Science, Mathematics, and Technical Subjects
Macaulay, David. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction. (L 1120)
Mackay, Donald. The Building of Manhattan.
Enzensberger, Hans Magnus. The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure. (L 580)
Peterson, Ivars and Nancy Henderson. Math Trek: Adventures in the Math Zone.
Katz, John. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho. (L 1070)
Petroski, Henry. “The Evolution of the Grocery Bag.”(complete article available in EBSCO, Utah's Online Library)
“Geology.” U*X*L Encyclopedia of Science.
“Space Probe.” Astronomy & Space: From the Big Bang to the Big Crunch.
“Elementary Particles.” New Book of Popular Science.
California Invasive Plant Council. Invasive Plant Inventory.

Grades 9–10 Text Exemplars

Stories
Homer. The Odyssey.
Ovid. Metamorphoses.
Gogol, Nikolai. “The Nose.”
De Voltaire, F. A. M. Candide, Or The Optimist.
Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Sons.
Henry, O. “The Gift of the Magi.”
Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath.
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451.
Olsen, Tillie. “I Stand Here Ironing.”
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart.
Lee, Harper. To Kill A Mockingbird.
Shaara, Michael. The Killer Angels.
Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club.
Álvarez, Julia. In the Time of the Butterflies.
Zusak, Marcus. The Book Thief. (L 730)

Drama
Sophocles. Oedipus Rex.
Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Macbeth.
Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll’s House.
Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie.
Ionesco, Eugene. Rhinoceros.
Fugard, Athol. “Master Harold”…and the boys.”

Poetry
Shakespeare, William. “Sonnet 73.”
Donne, John. “Song.”
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Ozymandias.”
Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Raven.”
Dickinson, Emily. “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark.”
Houseman, A. E. “Loveliest of Trees.”
Johnson, James Weldon. “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”
Cullen, Countee. “Yet Do I Marvel.”
Auden, Wystan Hugh. ”Musée des Beaux Arts.”
Walker, Alice. “Women.”
Baca, Jimmy Santiago. “I Am Offering This Poem to You.”

Informational Texts: English Language Arts
Henry, Patrick. “Speech to the Second Virginia Convention.”
Washington, George. “Farewell Address.”
Lincoln, Abraham. “Gettysburg Address.”
Lincoln, Abraham. “Second Inaugural Address.”
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. “State of the Union Address.”
Hand, Learned. “I Am an American Day Address.”
Smith, Margaret Chase. “Remarks to the Senate in Support of a Declaration of Conscience.”
King, Jr., Martin Luther. “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”
King, Jr., Martin Luther. “I Have a Dream: Address Delivered at the March on
Washington, D.C., for Civil Rights on August 28, 1963.”
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings .
Wiesel, Elie. “Hope, Despair and Memory.”
Reagan, Ronald. “Address to Students at Moscow State University.”
Quindlen, Anna. “A Quilt of a Country.”

Informational Texts: History/Social Studies
Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West.
Connell, Evan S. Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn.
Gombrich, E. H. The Story of Art, 16th Edition.
Kurlansky, Mark. Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World.
Haskins, Jim. Black, Blue and Gray: African Americans in the Civil War.
Dash, Joan. The Longitude Prize.
Thompson, Wendy. The Illustrated Book of Great Composers.
Mann, Charles C. Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491.

Informational Texts: Science, Mathematics, and Technical Subjects
Euclid. Elements.
Cannon, Annie J. “Classifying the Stars.”
Walker, Jearl. “Amusement Park Physics.”
Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story.
Devlin, Keith. Life by the Numbers.
Hoose, Phillip. The Race to Save Lord God Bird.
Hakim, Joy. The Story of Science: Newton at the Center.
Nicastro, Nicholas. Circumference: Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure the Globe.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency/U.S. Department of Energy. Recommended Levels of Insulation.